Notes for Wagenseil Concerto for Trombone by Paul R. Bryan, Jr.

My serious interest in the music of eighteenth-century classic-period composers began during the World War II yearswhile I was constantly in and out of New York City. I heard great performances of all types of music, but that by

the “Viennese classics,” Mozart, Haydn et al, appealed to me most of all. As an aspiringtrombonist I increasingly wondered why Mozart, who had written so many concertos formany instruments as well as so beautifully for trombones in his music for the church,especially the famous solos in his Requiem, had apparently never composed a concerto forthe trombone. And apparently neither had other composers, even though it was employedextensively in the music they composed for the many churches in Vienna and was the onlybrass instrument that was not constricted by the limitations of the overtone series. I wastherefore excited when I accidentally stumbled on Wagenseil’s fine work while I wassearching for something else.

It appeared before my eyes sometime in 1968 while I was on a sabbatical leave andworking in a fascinating archive, in the former summer residence of Bishop KarlLiechtenstein von Kastelkorne in Kromeriz,, a little town in Czechoslovakia (now knownas the Czech Republic). Information about the concerto and about the history of thetrombone in the Viennese milieu can be seen in an excellent series of articles by Ken

Shifrin published in volumes 119 and 120 of the BRASS BULLETIN in 2003. Among other things he mentionsthat Wagenseil might not have been the composer!

My distinguished colleague, Charles Sherman and I were pursuing our special projects, I photographing and tracingthe watermarks and copyist’s handwritings on the symphonies of Johann Wanhal and he the compositions ofMichael Haydn which had been reported to be in the archive. During a short break in my working, I scouted aroundand opened some intriguing-appearing file drawers in the card catalog. Suddenly, there IT was – information that thecollection contained a concerto for trombone! As usual with such material, there was no score, so I examined theparts and made appropriate notations about it in my records and he photographed the orchestral material.

Fortunately Dr. Sherman was then producing the important ACADEMIA MVSICALE series for the publisherUniversal Edition in Vienna. He too was impressed with Wagenseil’s concerto and believed it merited publication.And after a few weeks back in Vienna he presented me a beautifully-copied score to edit. We agreed that, forpractical reasons, it should have appropriate cadenzas which I composed and were printed in the solo trombone part.The place for a cadenza in the second movement was not indicated in the original parts, but it is typical of the timeand seemed a useful addition for practical purposes. In 1969 Universal published [UE 25 A 021] the orchestra scoreand a piano accompaniment. The orchestral material is available on rental from Universal.

The following year, after returning to my job as conductor of the Duke Wind Symphony, I was reminded that therewere few substantial works of concerto stature for solo trombone, and that, furthermore, there were few orchestrasavailable to play them. An appropriate transcription for wind band would probably be welcomed by my trombone-playing colleagues. I scored it in a manner that would preserve the flavor of the original: a string choir with a littlefour-voice wind choir of two flutes and two horns.

The core sound of the strings is replaced with the similarly homogeneously-centered timbre of the clarinet choir. Ihope that the alto clarinet part (or basset horn) and Eb contra-alto and/or contra-bass clarinet might be included inthe accompanying group. The oboe parts added to the mix adds a piquant flavor of Harmoniemusik typical of theperiod. The voice leading follows Wagenseil’s although the harmony has been judiciously fattened with the thirdclarinet part in tutti passages. The upper range of the flute is higher than would have been available when it wascomposed but will add a bit of brilliance to the timbre. The conductor is invited to use his/her best judgement!

The first performance of this transcription was given by John Marcellus in Duke University’s Page Auditorium. Ken

Shifrin’s performance Vienna’s Mozartsaal in 1973 evoked high praise by the important critic Karl Löbl in Der

Kurier. Later a manuscript version of not-very-good quality was made available. I am grateful for the chance to

revise it and that Gordon Cherry is publishing it!

Paul R. Bryan, Jr. / February 2010

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Concerto for Trombone

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Georg Christoph Wagenseil

transcribed by Paul Bryan and Classical Wind Ensemble

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